Handbook of Adoption: Implications for Researchers, Practitioners, and Families Book

Acknowledgments     xi
Foreword   David Brodzinsky     xiii
Breaking the Seal: Taking Adoption Issues to the Academic and Professional Communities   Rafael A. Javier   Amanda L. Baden   Frank A. Biafora   Alina Camacho-Gingerich   Douglas B. Henderson     1
Foundation   Frank A. Biafora     15
Toward a Sociology of Adoption: Historical Deconstruction   Dawn Esposito   Frank A. Biafora     17
Adoption Data and Statistical Trends   Frank A. Biafora   Dawn Esposito     32
A Legal History of Adoption and Ongoing Legal Challenges   Madelyn Freundlich     44
Theoretical Issues in Adoption   Rafael A. Javier     59
Developmental Challenges for Adoptees Across the Life Cycle   Michael F. McGinn     61
Adoptive Identity: How Contexts Within and Beyond the Family Shape Developmental Pathways   Harold D. Grotevant   Nora Dunbar   Julie K. Kohler   Amy M. Lash Esau     77
The Cultural-Racial Identity Model: A Theoretical Framework for Studying Transracial Adoptees   Amanda L. Baden   Robbie J. Steward     90
Transracial and International Adoption   Amanda L. Baden     113
Putting Culture Into Context: The Impact of Attitudes Toward the Adoption of Chinese Adoptees   Amanda L. Baden     117
Moving Beyond the Controversy of the Transracial Adoption of Black and Biracial Children   Rhonda M. Roorda     133
International Adoption of Latin American Children: Psychological Adjustment, Cultural, and Legal Issues   Alina Camacho-Gingerich   Susan Branco-Rodriguez   Raul Ernesto Pitteri   Rafael A. Javier     149
From the Ashes of War: Lessons From 50 Years of Korean International Adoption   Hollee A. McGinnis     160
Special Issues in Adoption   Amanda L. Baden     171
Open Adoptions: Longitudinal Outcomes for the Adoption Triad   Ruth G. McRoy   Harold D. Grotevant   Susan Ayers-Lopez   Susan M. Henney     175
Single-Parent Adoptions and Clinical Implications   Behnaz Pakizegi     190
The Special Needs of Special-Needs Adoptees and Their Families   Elizabeth J. Keagy   Barbara A. Rall     217
Double Stigma: The Impact of Adoption Issues on Lesbian and Gay Adoptive Parents   Carol Anderson Boyer     228
The Importance of Kinship Relationships for Children in Foster Care   Kathleen M. Doyle     242
School Issues and Adoption: Academic Considerations and Adaptation   Francine Fishman   Elliotte Sue Harrington     256
Training and Education for Adoption Therapy Competence   Rafael A. Javier     281
Variations in Clinical Issues for Children Adopted as Infants and Those Adopted as Older Children   Joyce Maguire Pavao     283
Counseling Adoption Triad Members: Making a Case for Adoption Training for Counselors and Clinical Psychologists   Theresa Kennedy Porch     293
Psychologists' Self-Reported Adoption Knowledge and the Need for More Adoption Education   Daniel A. Sass   Douglas B. Henderson     312
Research Findings in Adoption Work   Rafael A. Javier     323
Research Contributions: Strengthening Services for Members of the Adoption Triad   Madelyn Freundlich     327
Birth Mothers and Subsequent Children: The Role of Personality Traits and Attachment History   Mary Jo Carr     348
Identity, Psychological Adjustment, Culture, and Race: Issues for Transracial Adoptees and the Cultural-Racial Identity Model   Amanda L. Baden     359
Adoptees' and Birth Parents' Therapeutic Experiences Related to Adoption   Douglas B. Henderson   Daniel A. Sass   Jeanna Carlson (nee Webster)     379
Assessment and Treatment Issues in Adoption   Rafael A. Javier     399
Why Has the Mental Health Community Been Silent on Adoption Issues?   Douglas B. Henderson     403
The Inner Life of the Adopted Child: Adoption, Trauma, Loss, Fantasy, Search, and Reunion   Betty Jean Lifton     418
Birth Parents in Adoption: Using Research to Inform Practice   Amanda L. Baden   Mary O'Leary Wiley     425
Relinquishment as a Critical Variable in the Treatment of Adoptees   Ronald J. Nydam     445
Psychoanalytic Understanding and Treatment of the Adoptee   Christopher Deeg     461
Psychic Homelessness Related to Reactive Attachment Disorder: Dutch Adult Foreign Adoptees Struggling With Their Identity   Rene Hoksbergen   Jan ter Laak     474
"I Don't Know You": Transference and Countertransference Paradigms With Adoptees   Janet Rivkin Zuckerman   Betty Buchsbaum     491
Poetic Reflections and Other Creative Processes From Adoptees   Alina Camacho-Gingerich     505
Reflections   Penny Callan Partridge   Christian Langworthy   Sarah Saffian     509
Conclusion     525
The Future of Adoption: A Call to Action   Frank A. Biafora   Rafael A. Javier   Amanda L. Baden   Alina Camacho-Gingerich      527
Resource Guide     538
Index     543
About the Editors     555
About the Contributors     557